Homework Challenge Week 9

This challenge requires you to use force, mass and friction to navigate a spaceship through space.

Complete the interactive and write a definition of these science ideas in your homework books. You may need to use wikipedia or another search engine on our blog to help with your definitions.

Home Work Challenge Week 8

Complete this activity and put your answers to the quiz in your homework books. Some of you will find this 'tricky' to answer. You could put your heads together in groups of three if that suits you.

We will be going over the answers in class on Monday. Do your best!

Homework Challenge Week 7

This weeks challenge is a follow on from last week. We'll explore what it would be like to play sports on the moon. How do you think all the forces and motion will be effected?
Click on this link and complete the activities
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Homework Challenge Week 6

This weeks link is to explore a science interactive called, 'Iknowthat.com'.
- Go to this link - iknowthat.com

- Enter this login and password when asked; login - room12, password - room12
- Click on Gravity (you have to allow your browser to open, 'popups'. See a maxit team member for help.
- Explore and read all about gravity
- What are two things that you have learnt about gravity that you didn't know?
-Click on, 'Solar System Weight Guide' and enter your weight. How much do you weigh on other planets?
- Record your weight on each planet. Do you see a pattern? Can you EXPLAIN it?

Don't forget to record the red questions and answers in your homework books under, 'Homework Challenge'.

Week 5 - Homework Challenge

This weeks challenge is to learn your own 'Mihi' for introducing yourselves. It should follow this outline -
Tena koutou, tena koutou,
tena koutou katoa!!

Ko ……………………… taku ingoa.
No ……………………… ahau.
Ko ……………………… toku mama.
Ko ……………………… toku papa.

No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou,
tena koutou katoa
To help you get 'in the groove' visit this site;
Te Whanake online
It has lots of activities you can do to practise your Te Reo. We'll try some during class, too.
You will need to learn your Mihi by NEXT MONDAY!

Homework Challenge Week 4

This week we are learning how to use the independent spelling activity on Wicked.
Use this link and follow the steps.

Choose 10 words to practise and learn (make sure they are words that you need to practise!). If the words are too easy, pick the most difficult ones. They could be ones with apostrophes.

Write a draft story at the end using your words. Copy this story into your homework book and underline the spelling words you practised.

Don't forget to use our L.O login and password that you have in your homework books!

Homework - Week 3

Well done to everyone for coming to grips with our homework last week. We are working through 'teething' problems with dial-up issues and problem with media browsers. Some students are having problems with the 'challenge' part of the homework. Let's keep talking!

This weeks homework involves your self selected reading (and filling in the log) and your spelling lists should be up and running this (12) week. We are still preparing your basic facts ladder and this should begin in week 4.

Homework Challenge - Week 3!
This weeks reading focus starts to explore, 'What good readers do'. We are starting with -'They think about what they are reading!' This can mean that we make pictures in our heads.

This week we are using a 'Learning Object' that the NZ Ministry of Education has developed. It teaches us about how words can mean different things for different people. (Click on the picture) Go through all the activities and answer these questions in your homework books;

1. Choose one poem /story and draw a picture (or series of pictures) that matches. Include 5 labels on your drawing that relates to a word in the text.
eg, draw a snake and label, 'crooked' on the bend in its spine.

On Monday we will compare our pictures!